Laurel L. Rimon

Senior Counsel

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Laurel Loomis Rimon represents clients on a broad range of anti-money laundering and fintech enforcement issues. A former General Counsel for the Office of the Inspector General at the US Department of Homeland Security, Laurel’s practice is backed by decades of high-level government experience and offers clients a seasoned investigator’s perspective.

As General Counsel for the Office of the Inspector General, Laurel served as primary legal counsel to the Inspector General on criminal and administrative investigations, audits, inspections, and congressional relations.

Laurel has served in a number of other government roles, as well. She was an Assistant Deputy Enforcement Director for the Office of Enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, leading complex and sensitive investigations of bank and non-bank subjects, and as Investigative Counsel at the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Office of Inspector General.

Laurel also has held a number of positions at the US Department of Justice, in both the Civil and Criminal divisions, including Deputy Chief of the Financial Investigations and Litigation Unit, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Chief of the Special Prosecutions Unit at the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, and Assistant US Attorney in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where she successfully handled the money laundering and money transmitting prosecution of the “e-gold” enterprise, a novel online digital currency service used to fund various criminal enterprises. As a result of her work on that groundbreaking prosecution and other internet-related cases, she received the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Outstanding Advocacy in Protecting Citizens from Online Crime.